Description: A woman with a friendly, welcoming air about her, she wears a grey costume with the symbols of luck on her torso. She wears a colorful flower in her black hair. Her eyes are amber and catlike.

Personality: She is erratic and paranoid. She believes dire rats are coming to abduct people. Her home and work are filled with various knick knacks she has acquired through the years. She cares a great deal for her adopted teenage daughter.

History: She was born with several neurological imbalances, which makes sleep difficult for her. It may also be what makes her so good at details. Since her father passed away years ago, her mother had doted on her, and she came to think her herself as special and better than other people in town. A notion that was reinforced by her attractiveness, a trait in which she easily excels the other women of her town. By chance she met her sister recently and the two have been together since.

Motivation: To get a good night's sleep; and doesn't want to be a mayor and was forced into it by her family

Flaws: Disease, Insomniac. Bonds: Attractive, Enemies, Family. Occupation: Mayor

Voice: Smoker's lung

Possessions: 350 gp. Red garnet (160 gp).

Description: This man is constantly adorned with expensive silk clothing, often dyed in bright brown and yellow, and wears rings and necklaces with large, colorful gems. He has a penchant for wearing a ring with an oversized amethyst on his right hand. He keeps his long yellow fur kept up in a rat tail. His green eyes are passionate and lively.

Personality: Drifting is a sociable creature first and foremost. He loves to listen to people at length before talking their ear off. He can carry on conversation for hours and will do so. He tends to be very friendly, and is drawn to music, the smells of food and wine, and out-door festivals.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He was taken as a slave by a traveling circus and forced to perform He has built up a small fortune and can afford his own way.

Motivation: He's attracted to the PC; and wants to have a good time and be beloved

Ideals: Extrovert, Optimist. Bonds: Rich, Military, Slave, Has a crush. Occupation: Brewer

Voice: Rolls R's

Possessions: 30 pp. Brown-green garnet (110 gp). 1 Darkwood Shield.

Description: What flesh remains visible is marred by burns. He wears a black vest with golden trim over his white shirt. His brown leather gloves and pants are well-kept, and his black boots flare out at the collars. His hair is long and golden with streaks of chestnut, and is pulled back with small black clips. His beard is chestnut, braided, and well cared for. His face is feral with sharp distinguishing features. His spectacle hidden eyes are a deep gray.

Personality: He believes there is no problem he cannot solve with sufficient elbow grease and persistence, if it is the best or most economic solution matters not. Around other people he will do his best to conceal his emotions and appear jolly.

History: He served in the navy to pay for his family's outstanding loans. He made a point of taking high paying jobs and getting most of it up front. He became a plane-shifter, and is stopping over on this plane for a brief visit.

Motivation: Meet up once more with his childhood friend.

Ideals: Persistence. Flaws: Ugly, Shy. Bonds: Military, Adventurer. Occupation: Performer

Voice: growls and snarls, animalistic

Possessions: 300 sp. 1 Masterwork Common Melee.

Description: A pudgy woman standing about 2'8" has a big stupid grin on her face most of the time. She wears clothing that is held on in multiple layers but all of it is in poor condition. Her head has been shaved. She is baby faced.

Personality: She is not truly malevolent, but she is obsessed with poetry. She constantly tries to fill her life with poetry. She dislikes loud distracting noises, but is overall hospitable. Her biggest love is that of knowledge and as such will purchase any books or pay to listen to tales that travelers might have.

History: Born the oldest of a large religious eastern family, she was no stranger to responsibility. She moved from fad to fad and when she turned 15 she discovered poetry. She routinely visits covens of witches but complains that many are fraudulent and lack true knowledge of magic.

Motivation: She is compelled to act according to her religious beliefs.

Ideals: Artistic, Logical. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Religious. Occupation: Glassblower

Voice: Speaks fast with a slight lisp

Possessions: 120 gp.

Description: This northern man is dressed in earthy colors with a blue and tan handkerchief worn on his left side. His clothes are grease stained in places. He has styled his blonde hair well, parting it to the left. He wears an eyepatch.

Personality: Overbrimming with self-confidence, Alston isn't afraid of most anything. He has a strong dislike to people who do not believe in Gnomish unity. The occasional robbery is his preferred attention getting crime, but he mainly uses his means for meeting his own perverse desires.

History: His history is one of pain. He was disowned by both parents and raised among the slaves his parents kept. Alston was a troubled youth. He spent his days as a hard laborer instead of attending school, and spent his evenings with numerous mobsters and gang members. Alston decided he wanted neither the life of his mother nor that of the evil petty criminals he associated with. During his early adolescence, he took a sudden opportunity while working the docks and commandeered a vessel that was left unmanned. Recently he has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: He possesses a valuable artifact that the thieves guild wishes to steal; and he feels the way he acts is they only way to get by in the world

Ideals: Impeccable. Flaws: Ugly. Bonds: Poor, Immigrant, Criminal record, Slave. Occupation: Adventurer

Voice: Loud with bravado

Possessions: 1400 sp.

Description: This slender man stands about 3'3". He tends to wear a heavy leather apron. Coupled with his rolled up shirt sleeves this gives him a very relaxed look. He wears his hair in dreadlocks. He tend to wears goggles to shield his eyes.

Personality: He is quite gentle and does not know the full extent of his strength. He works very hard to maintain that gentleness. He is skeptical of what others tell him and is slow to trust.

History: He grew up in a lower middle class home, but living comfortably wasn't enough. He sought a place where he would be rewarded solely on the merits of his skills. This search led him directly into Stylist work with an outfit from a few towns over. Stylist work suited him well, and with each successful project, he earned more gold and more respect from his peers. He inherited the family business which he has now maintained for 13 years.

Motivation: Sabotage a competitor; and wants to raise his children well

Ideals: Disciplined. Flaws: Shy, Mundane. Bonds: Job, Family. Occupation: Stylist

Voice: Thin and wheezing

Possessions: 14000 cp.

Description: Wearing a closed helm and plate, one would not know what she was had she not made sure her armor was more form fitting than normal. Outside of the suit she wears a custom-built plate barding that's adorned with blue lining and desert motifs. Her long white hair reaches down to her waist. She has a very pronounced jaw and large eyebrows. She wears rectangular glasses with silver brims.

Personality: She snorts whenever she laughs or is feeling confident. She loves being with her children and actually smiles when they are around. She would do anything for them. She dislikes her ex a great deal.

History: She got into the Server business at a young age. She was an apprentice working in her father's forge. Recently she has begun working with bootleggers and crooks.

Motivation: She wants random interesting trinkets and junk, hates to throw anything away; and her relatives are trying to arrange a marriage

Flaws: Greedy. Bonds: Family, Job, Criminal record. Occupation: Server

Voice: Shortens vowels

Possessions: 290 gp.

Description: A hulking man with gigantic muscles, he wears a brown cloak and cross-gartered violet stockings. His brown fur is smooth and relatively long. He has a dull look in his yellow eyes.

Personality: He is quiet and unassuming. He ignores others and carries on with his job unassumingly. He does not believe in violence as a means to an end. He is a dedicated Mortician but believes his peers are too gung-ho.

History: He is a Jackalwere in disguise. His family was being driven out of business by several neighboring competitors. The mother sought out extralegal help and others began closing their doors. He saw this and took pride in his mother's willingness to do anything to win. When he grew older, he became a bit more civilized, usually hanging around bars and taverns. He began work as a mercenary for hire. He would embark on any mission as long as the price was right.

Motivation: To fight the greatest warriors and to fight in the greatest battles ever; and he has passion for adventuring and risk

Ideals: Pacifist, Fighting. Bonds: Job, Adventurer, Criminal record. Occupation: Mortician

Voice: Sensual and smooth

Possessions: Just what you see.

Description: He tends to wear a pastel poncho over his likewise colored trousers and shirt. He has a slight overbite and is overall scrawny. His brown fur is heavily combed to the right. His amber unseeing eyes seem to look past you.

Personality: He is witty, but his monotone delivery comes off as unnerving He also is a firm believer in the manly ideal.

History: He was raised happily, as a normal child born to his father and mother. His father taught him the rudiments of the Ruler arts, while his mother instructed him in etiquette, music and courtly manner. He has chosen to use the inheritance that was left to him frivolously. He now mingles about in high society.

Motivation: Money/treasure.

Ideals: Joker. Flaws: Disease, Impulsive. Bonds: Rich. Occupation: Ruler

Voice: Irish accent

Possessions: 500 sp. Pink pearl (110 gp).